Hi Ruby!Thank you for stopping by to congratulate me when I was Bird of the Day! I had a lovely time in the castle with beautiful Chyna. I'm still nervous in my new home, but I am adjusting. Momma needs to work on me with my step ups, I'm not very good with them. I like shoulders, but no one seems to want me to go up there yet. I bit mom three times yesterday. I was sitting by her chest and she was getting up to get something, but she scared me and a bit her neck. Then when she tried to get my beaky off I bit her finger and the back of her head. I didn't bite her that hard, but I did make her bleed a little bit. She has a nice mark and bruise on her neck, but she's okay. She said she's not mad at me. I really like destroying stuff (as expected)! I've almost destroyed a whole toy in my cage, and I've also destroyed many finger traps, lolly pop sticks, and a ball. hehe! Mommy made birdie for me (And I guess those other birds that I'm not allowed to play with). It has red, orange and yellow bell peppers, strawberries, almonds, and flax seed in it. I really like bread, so it's a good way for me to eat that other stuff! I also talk! I can say Hi Jester, Hi, Jester, I love you, and mommy thinks she heard me say pretty bird. I also laugh, bark, and blow kisses! I have two voices, a really deep one that a mumble stuff with, and a really adorable one that I say most of my words with. Mom says she'll have to get a video of me talking, it's so sweet! Hugs, Jester

Thank you Rubyand the Spot an Stevie too for the note of congratulations yesterday on my win of the BOTD. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself the winner the day after my hatchday. No complaints about a two-day party!

Happy Friday pretty babyA little dark this morning, but hopefully that will change - mom wanted to put flowers in her planters on the deck but it got cold again. Maybe next weekend :) Instead I'm hoping she'll play with me all weekend !

Thank You Miss Ruby, too! or 'Too or well........Thanks for the congrats with your other flock mates! Aren't you a darlin' little piece of cherry pie! I had mentioned me & the team were tickled pink and the Bazebol Commissioner was mistaking us for galas. That's another name for your type of birdy bird. Well, sweety, I was letting Spot know he'd be welcomed anytime at my page and so are YOU! Hope you'll come by some time!

Also, welcome to the Bird Channel. It's so nice to have you little ones here! Hugs, SamIAm

Well RubyHow was your special day ? Did you get a new toy ? Your favorite food ? Lots of scritches ?

Mom is glued to the tv and the phone . . . not only is it eerie seeing all the old stomping grounds all over the news (she went to BC - hey, me too ! ! ! heeheehee), but one of her former students (that she still keeps in touch with) was running yesterday and she's waiting to hear . . .

Hi beautiful RubyThanks for stopping by to help me celebrate yesterday - could have knocked me over with a feather when I turned on the 'puter in the morning and saw ME looking at me ! I do so love surprises :)

It's Oz and I want to Thank You for stopping by earlier. I still can't believe I was BOTD today and spend the day in a Castle. Tonight I went to the Dance with Taz and guess what? I kept my Tiara on cause I still felt like a Queen LOL. Hope to see you tomorrow at Tia's Carnival. Want to be Friends with me? Stop by anytime and see me and my Flock. We love getting company. Here's a vote for you. Good Nite.

THANKS FROM PRINCESS LUCYHi Ruby and Spot, I want to thank you so very much for congratulating me and helping to make me BOTD. Mommy and I still don't understand how that happened since I'm on here so infrequently these days, but we really appreciate it. I just love being a Queen and/or a Princess. That's what I am at home! Love from Little Princess Lucy♥

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS HONORYou have made all of us at the Proud Bird Pie Shop very happy. And you all have helped make us "THE" place to meet and have a quick lunch or light or heavy snack since December 2009. And, starting today, we will be open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to serve you, our dear friends. Thank you again for making The Proud Bird Pie Shop so successful. Love, The Proud Bird Pie Shop Staff. Lucky, Ginger, Sassy Sawyer, Blue, Jewel, Pearl, And all the behind the scene birdies that have helped to make us so popular.

Hi RubyThanks for the congratulations on BOTD. We had a huge party here on the Rainbow Bridge, with all my friends, old and new, who are here with me. It feels so great to be remembered by everyone I left behind, and to be honored by those I never had a chance to meet. Thanks again, Angel Divo

THANK YOU, from The Pretty Rose Flower ShopThank you for voting us Business Of The Day. And thank you all for making this Valentines Day our most productive day ever. Your Business, your love and your friendship mean the world to us and what we do. You all are the most wonderful friends anybirdy could ever have. You all have made us so very happy in what we do. As our motto states, "We Deliver Love".

From Romeo & His AngelAngel Christy and I want to thank each of you for your kind words of support for our Angel Wings Toy Shoppe, we were so afraid we wouldn't be able to get it reinstalled, but many of you sent notes and emails on our behalf, your voices were heard and we have our beloved Toy Shoppe back where it belongs. All the kind sweet notes on the Toy Shoppe page yesterday made us realize how important it is to all of you, just as important as it is for me, my Angel Christy, Mom and uncle Chuck. We decided when we lost Christy to keep the toy shoppe alive for all the memories we have shared with her and all of you within the walls of the Toy Shoppe, that's where I can feel her presence the most, it's a very sacred place, as long as I am here, here she will be also allowing her sweet memory and presence be felt to all that care to enter..Thank you for all your kindness in helping us hold on to something that is so precious to us..Love from Romeo,Christy, Mom & Uncle Chuck

1. Best Friends by Samantha Glen. The story of a sanctuary for animals that was founded in the mid 1980s and built from the ground up by a group of friends. Most of the stories feature furballs, but check out their website at www.bestfriends.org. and see they do care for birds as well.

2. The library has a copy of Birds on the Couch: The Bird Shrink's Guide to Keeping Polly from going Crackers and you out of the Cuckoo's Nest by Ruth Hanessian. It's a fun lil book with lil anecdotes. Enjoyable stories of bird owners' experiences with their pets.

3. Song of the Dodo, by David Quammen, is about island biogeography and is very interesting.

4. The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, by the same author, discusses Charles Darwin's personality and why it took him so long to publish his theory. He was nearly upstaged by another scientist!

5. Beak of the Finch, talks about the work among the Galapagos finches going on today.

6. Some light reading: any Inspector Brunetti mystery by Donna Leon. She sets her stories in Venice, Italy, so the setting is great and the plots have unusual twists in them at times.

7. Best Friends by Samantha Glen. The story of a sanctuary for animals that was founded in the mid 1980s and built from the ground up by a group of friends. Most of the stories feature furballs, but check out their website at www.bestfriends.org. and see they do care for birds as well.

8. There's an author named Donna Andrews who does mysteries written kind of humorously, and all of them have bird names: The Real Macaw, Cockatiels at Seven, etc. Any of them makes a fun and quick read.

9. And Chloe would like to recommend a picture book for parrots called "Polly Wants a Poem!". It is a cute book of poetry and prose just for us parrots that our parronts can read to us and it has pictures of real birdies in it for us to look at, I know this cause my frother Simon is in the book twice and Taz is in once. It was written by Bob Morrow, he has published hundreds of poems for children but until he found himself sharing his home with Harley (CAG) who quickly converted him to parrot fan. A portion of each sale is donated to The Alex Foundation. Pictures of the book can be found on my page.

Hi RubyWow BOTD for the castle. Dos that mean the castle gets to spend the day in the castle? Do the castls staff get to take the day off? Who will do all the things the castle and its staff do for the BOTD?

Hi Ruby!Punkin grabs her wings and they dance around. thank you so much for helping me become BOTD! You could have knocked me over with a finch feather! It didn't even register with mom until Ipo jumped up and down on her shoulder and pointing said THAT'S PUNKIN!!!! hehehe What a wonderful surprise. I just wish my fister were still here to enjoy it with me. I miss Sidney very much.

What a response to the new library ! His mom always told him words can change the world ! And knowledge is power . . . at least he hopes so as he looks over the long line of birdie friends waiting for library cards :)

As he presents each card proudly, he reminds the new owner to VOTE SNOWY (page 150496) next month's BOTM !

Hi RubyThank you for the congrats for botd! I had a lot of fun two days in a row! Wow! First my 21 year anniversary and now botd! Does it get much better?! I am one happy boy! Glad you could share it with me;)

Do you have all the fog ?Dad could hardly find the feeders to put the seed in this morning and mom doesn't want to make her whole 5 mile commute ! YIKES !

Today's book choice is all for us my friends - not for the parronts ! I have my own personal copy of this book that I like to "read" while mom is reading her books. I love to enjoy quiet reading time with mom and she loves it too. If you don't have it yet, rush right out and get your very own copy of THE PHONE BOOK !

good morning my friend !Was your weather yesterday just rain ? We had snow turning to ice - mom was home by 11:00 ! We had a wonderful afternoon playing :)

Another story of a human-bird relationship - SHARING A ROBIN'S LIFE by Linda Johns is the true story of a robin named County who chose to share life with the author after being rescued as a fledgling. Although County is a free flying house bird, the author tries to give her as close to a natural life as possible. This includes nest building, foraging for food and egg laying. Marvelous !

Hi Pretty Girl..I'm Romeo, thank you for your note on my page, I have to say it again you are very pretty with all those splashes of pink, you can tell your just a baby..I've been with Mom since I was 7 months old, now I'm 8, I've never known any other home, and hope I never have to..My Mom would have a house full of Cockatoo's if she had to room, she thinks we get a bad rap for squawking but that's not the case at all. I can tell anyone, we're the most sensitive loving and cuddly birds anyone could have..If I'm not being too presumptuous could you share with us something about yourself, personality, traits, I'm not as familiar with the Rose Breasted Cockatoo, just that your one of the prettiest I've seen. Enjoy your day, and I hope you'll visit me when you find the time..Hugs from Romeo

Hi RubyYour a very beautiful girl, I don't think we've met before but I'm glad you came to my page today, it's nice meeting new friends. While I'm here I'd like to ask you if you would like to play baseball on my big frother's C2 White Hawks baseball team, he's the Coach. I'm recruting for him, stop by his page, his name is Romeo but don't let him sweet talk you into anything you don't want to do cause he'll try..Have a fun day, Love CoCoPuff

Hi Cutie !Mom is home cause of the snow we're getting ! They let the schools out early so we're visiting :) Are you getting bad weather too or are you too far south ?

Today's book was a favorite when mom was teaching 2nd grade (now she's in 4th) :

One last children's picture book - TERRIFIC by Jon Agee is about Eugene Mudge, a pessimistic old curmudgeon. He wins a free trip to Bermuda and of course everything goes wrong ! He ends up shipwrecked on a deserted island with a broken winged parrot named Lenny. Lenny's help and friendship end up being the catalyst for Eugene's transformation and rescue ! Great illustrations too !

Ruby!By the Great Cockatoo, you're a... well, a COCKATOO?! I never-I-I'm honored! Right out of the egg, I've been taught to honor the Great Cockatoo's might! You ARE a queen! woooww... well, hi, I guess. Oh yeah, not to mention the Great Pheonix. Zia thinks it's ridiculous, but I believe my wild friend Fenix is a descendant of the Great glory-filled Pheonix! Rotting ceres, ZIA is a descendant of a RABBID FINCH. Well, yeah, hi, pretty bird. I've come to ask if you'll be my mate! Is Stevie your mate? Well, your SECOND mate! Atleast it'd be nice to know I have a second mate on a human computer website. I'm nothing but a poor LONER in a flock of RABBID PARAKEETS. Help! Wait... who's Stevie? A blue-crown conure? If so, if so... is he? An actual blue-crown?! Wow... he HAS to be a blue-crown! Please! And the cockatiel? So many pretty birds to meet... so exiting!

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